SCIL Talks: big ideas from our experts in international law

In less than six minutes each, the videos cover a wide range of topics including the environment, rebellion, forced evictions in Nepal and the role international law plays in crafting non-legal phenomena.

They are designed to engage those already working in the field, as well as those new to it.

Irene Baghoomians' talk (at the very top) - 'Forced Evictions' - sheds light on the clearing of settlements along the Bagmati River in Nepal. International law should, Baghoomians contends, be doing more to address these evictees' plight.

Fleur Johns' talk (directly above) - 'Non-Law' - asks us to imagine the sub-machine gun as a product of international law. Greater account should be taken of the role that law plays in shaping our non-legal lives, Johns argues, including our understandings of technology, violence and politics